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REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING 
A report was received from the Directors of the Benjamin Apthorp Gould 
Fund, signed by F. R. Moulton, E. E. Barnard and R. S. Woodward, stating 
that on April 1, 1919, the total income balance of the Gould Fund was $7028.46, 
of which $1773.46 was in cash and $5255 in interest-bearing securities; and that 
since April 1, 1919, a grant of $500 had been made to Benjamin Boss for the 
support of the Astronomical Journal. 
A report was received from the Directors of the Wolcott Gibbs Fund, signed 
by C. L. Jackson, Edgar F. Smith, and T. W. Richards stating that the unex- 
pended income of the fund amounted to $622.76, of which $500 had been in- 
vested temporarily in Liberty Bonds; that no award had been made; and that 
reports on previous awards were as follows : 
No. 8. Professor R. L. Datta, University College of Sciences, Calcutta, reports that in 
spite of hindrance from the war he has procured organic chemicals to the value of three- 
quarters of the grant, and that these have enabled him to carry on work described in two 
papers now ready for publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society — ''lodination 
by Means of Nitrogen Iodide and Replacement of Iodine by Nitro Groups," by R. L. Datta 
and J. Lahire. This paper contains a careful study of the two reactions including the descrip- 
tion of seven new compounds. "The Replacement of Sulphuric Groups of Chlorine and the 
Preparation of Organic Chloro-derivatives," by R. L. Datta and H. K. Miller. This paper 
contains a careful study of this reaction. 
No reports were received from Professor W. B. Harkins, (Nos. 4 and 7), or from Professor 
G. P. Baxter, (No. 6). 
(No report was presented from the Committee on the Ma'rcellus Hartley 
Fund, owing to the recent death of the Chairman, Dr. George F. Becker.) 
A report was received from the Committee on the Marsh Fund, signed by 
E. H. Moore (Chairman), stating that the condition of the Fund was 
Total capital April 1,1919 $19,500.00 
In addition, cash 375.47 
Two Liberty bonds 1 50 . 00 
Accrued income to be added May 1, 1919, about 227 .00 
By the addition of $500 from balance and income the capital is to be raised 
to $20,000 February 1, 1920. Reports on previous grants are as follows 
No. 1. Dr. John M. Clarke, Albany, New York: "Mutualism, Symbiosis and De- 
pendent Life among Animals of Geologic Time." In view of the difficulty of completing this 
investigation under war conditions Dr. Clarke was authorized to make use of part of this 
Grant for clerical work in the preparation for the Academy of the James Hall biography. Dr. 
Clarke reports — First — the original investigation is progressing favorably. "Study of geo- 
logical evidences of parasitism and dependence has proceeded as opportunity permitted. 
Surveys and selections have been made of the material in several of the larger museums. 
Special collecting has been done, a good degree of careful preparation made of the material 
and a considerable number of enlarged stereo photographs made." Second — "The Hall 
Memoir, which has involved the reading and extraction of 10,000 letters and many other 
records, is now approaching conclusion, having been brought up to the year 1880." 
No. 2. M. Ferdinand Canu, Versailles, France, "Early Tertiary Bryozoa of North Amer- 
ica." This grant was to further the completion of investigations in progress in cooperation 
with Dr. R. S. Bassler of the United States National Museum, who reports: "This work is 
